Pupil Premium

St. Thomas’ Catholic Primary School receives Pupil Premium funding from the government to support those children who are in receipt of free school meals (FSM) or who have received FSM in the last six years. This money is for the school to spend on areas where they can add value to the child’s education as a strong, rounded education is vital to improving life chances.

As a school we are focused on improving life chances for our pupils by ensuring that we remove as many barriers to learning as we are able to. We use our rigorous monitoring and tracking system of all pupils to identify where both gaps in and, barriers to learning exist and plan various intervention strategies to support pupil progress and attainment. The Pupil Premium money helped us to achieve this by allowing us to access:

The Pupil Premium Grant for the financial year 2019/2020 is expected to be £48,120.

Parent Support Advisor to work with parents to reduce barriers to learning for children.

Pastoral support for pupils with home issues challenging their readiness to learn in school.

Homework club – enabling children who might not otherwise have internet access to use our resources to complete homework and research projects.

All clubs paid for so that full participation in all areas of school life is not dependent upon home income.

Payment for offsite educational visits ensuring full involvement of all children in learning enhancing activities.

Counselling services.

The services of an Educational Psychologist

Dyslexia Screening

Staff training to ensure that we reach all of our children when providing an interesting, rigorous and challenging curriculum.

We are recruiting a teacher to work across the whole school provided targeted and individual interventions.

The Pupil Premium Grant for the financial year 2018/2019 is £46,800.

The monies received are all spent on improving their educational experience and life chances of the children within our school who are in receipt of Pupil Premium funding. Some of the ways that we have spent the monies are:

Salary of the Parent Support Advisor,

Expenses for Pupil Premium children participating in educational visits and extra-curricular clubs on school site.

Talking therapies.

End of Key Stage 2 results May 2019

KS2 percentage of Pupil premium pupils who achieved the Expected Level or higher:

Reading Expected Standard+: 87.5% (Nationally:73% )

Reading High Score: 37.5% (Nationally:27% )

Writing Expected Standard+: 87.5% (Nationally: 78% )

Writing Greater Depth: 12.5% (Nationally: 20% )

Maths Expected Standard+: 87.5% (Nationally: 79% )

Maths High Score:25% (Nationally:27%)

GPS Expected Standard+: 75% (Nationally: 78% )

GPS High Score:25% (Nationally:36%)

There were 8 children out of cohort of 30 who qualified for Pupil Premium funding.

(National figures are for non-disadvantaged children.)

End of Key Stage 1 results May 2019

Reading Expected Standard+: 50% (Nationally: 74.9%)

Writing Expected Standard+: 50% (Nationally: 69.2%)

Maths Expected Standard+: 75% (Nationally: 75.6%)

In 2017/2018 the school received £38,070.

We plan to use this money in the following areas to add value to pupil premium children:

Salary of one teacher with a special focus on Pupil Premium children,

Salary of the Parent Support Advisor,

Expenses for Pupil Premium children participating in educational visits and extra-curricular clubs on school site.

There were 10 children out of cohort of 30 who qualified for Pupil Premium funding. From this group, one child did not take the SATs as he had not been in the country long enough to qualify to sit them. All of the percentages are based upon the 10 Pupil Premium children.